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Paderborn's trainer Steffen Baumgart: "Respect also means looking at the shit"
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Guido Kirchner / dpa
It was late in Dortmund.
Paderborn's trainer Steffen Baumgart greeted the digital media group with a "good morning".
This was due to the extra time, at the end of which BVB made it into the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup with a 3-2 victory, but also to the VAR decision on Erling Haaland's winning goal.
It took almost five minutes before referee Tobias Stieler pointed to the kick-off point and recognized the goal.
And that was exactly what Baumgart had raged.
The 49-year-old had already let his anger run free on the pitch, as befits a person who coached his team for more than 120 minutes in seven degrees and continuous rain in a short-sleeved shirt: "That's a cheek," he grumbled ARD microphone when the calendar still showed Tuesday: "It's getting ridiculous."
What was Baumgart about, who basically stated that he was a supporter of the video evidence?
In extra time, Dortmund's substitute captain Thomas Delaney played a long pass to Haaland, who was minimally offside.
The Norwegian ran up to Paderborn's goalkeeper Leopold Zingerle and pushed in.
However, referee Stieler had noticed a touch of the ball by Paderborn's Svante Ingelsson, which made a completely different assessment of the scene necessary according to the offside rule.
During the unusually long review by the video assistant Matthias Jöllenbeck, the question was not whether the position was offside, but whether Ingelsson had touched the ball when he attempted to clear it or not.
The decisive passage in the rulebook (“Deliberate Play”) reads: "A player does not gain an advantage from an offside position if he receives the ball from an opposing player who plays the ball intentionally." this must be done on purpose - the player must not be shot.
Even the TV pictures could not clearly prove that Ingelsson touched it, and there was always an intention.
Baumgart: "I am not a stock corporation"
For Baumgart, however, it was less about the rule.
He asked Stieler to go to the review area.
"We stand there and freeze our asses off for seven minutes," Baumgart said to himself in a rage.
“Respect also means looking at that shit and not kicking the kid's ass again.
That's about two million for us, "Baumgart grumbled, then shot at Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, which is listed on the stock exchange:" I'm not a stock corporation, we fight for every tired mark. "
In fact, there is no entry in the commercial register about a Steffen Baumgart AG, and the fact that he trains the men's team at SC Paderborn 07 GmbH & Co. KGaA, i.e. a partnership limited by shares, is ignored.
However, the sales of the two companies are extremely different.
Baumgart had gone into the digital media round with the intention of cooling off a bit.
But that failed: “Can I call that arrogant?
Or what can I call that?
He ruined the evening for all of us, ”he said in the direction of referee Stieler, who was exonerated by the DFB via Twitter that night.
Since the referee's "perception" - which includes both seeing and hearing - could not be clearly refuted by the video assistant, the decision had to stand.
There was therefore no reason for Stieler to look at the scene again: there was no clear wrong decision.
Paderborn thanks to VAR decision in the extension
The fact that the Paderborn team came into extra time was due to a first video evidence decision.
BVB led 2-0 after 16 minutes with goals from Emre Can and Sancho.
That should be enough for a eighth-finalist in the Champions League to be able to make an end to a table ninth in the second division after 90 minutes.
But Dortmund wanted to manage the result, got into trouble after Julian Justvan's goal (79th minute) and experienced a rollercoaster of emotions.
Haaland scored 3-1 in stoppage time.
Because Felix Passlack had fouled Sebastian Schonlau seconds before in his own penalty area, VAR Jöllenbeck steered referee Stieler to the sideline.
Together they decided on a penalty, which Prince Owusu converted in the 97th minute.
Critics of the video evidence still see themselves confirmed because of Stieler's second decision: The implementation often takes too long, there is no uniform line, not only clear wrong decisions are corrected.
The scene is not suitable for a general criticism.
Neither Baumgart nor ARD reporter Tom Bartels had addressed the crucial part of the offside rule.
It was simply a rarity.
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